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Tom O’Rourke (May 13 1856 – June 19 1936) was born in Boston and became a boxing manager in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.O’Rourke boxed in his youth but his primary talent was rowing. He began managing boxers in the late 1880s finally getting the black bantamweight George Dixon in his stable in 1889. O’Rourke saw Dixon outmatch Paddy Kelly in Boston and began managing him to an eventual meeting with Cal McCarthy the lightweight champion of the world.